MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'bastards'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:45:26 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2993923&cid=t_252409_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F11%2F15%2Fif-its-any-consolation-i-dont-begin-to-understand-them%2F I understood growing up that trusted people were not inadvertently driving me crazy but were instead devoted to the systematic destruction of my sanity. It wasn’t about their behaviors, though I’d make it a point to avoid a beating by wandering the neighborhood til the lights went out, go home and step over mom on the way to the kitchen, eat a tub of Cool Whip, fall asleep on the couch and wake up with a caregiver’s dick in my mouth. Go down to the basement and burn my cum-stained nightie in the laundrytub, thinking, then head off to school in rumpled overalls and mother’s torn nylons, sleep at my desk while intuitive classmates point and ridicule, gearing up for the beatdown I was hoping to dodge by the bullies on the playground. Welp, I told myself, sucks all righ... Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2993923 Sun, 15 Nov 2009 06:09:44 +0100 2993923 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2405130&cid=t_252409_87_f&fid=34595&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnhsblogdoc.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F05%2Fungrateful-bastards.html Find a burglar in your house in the middle of the night and you have to be careful. For your own safety of course, but also for his. You owe him a duty of care not to use unreasonable force. If you hit him over the head with your old cricket bat, and kill him, you could be in trouble.We live in a strange world.Doctors, of course, owe a duty of care to their patients. And quite right too. But sometimes you do your best and even, occasionally (yes, it does happen), save a life. Dr Grumble saved a life recently but he is still being sued.It’s enough to make us all want to retire. (Source: NHS Blog Doctor) NHS Blog Doctor blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2405130 Wed, 13 May 2009 08:00:00 +0100 2405130 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2110735&cid=t_252409_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F01%2F17%2Fpsychiatric-survivors-labels-and-me%2F If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick. William James Ω The deleterious effect of evil, pernicious, stigmatizing labels are at the core of psychiatric survivor discourse™, so of course it makes me wonder why I don’t care about mine so much, like — what am I missing here, am I insufficiently outraged about a civil rights injustice?! Borderline, Bi-polar, Schizophrenia, these official stamps of psychiatry will lead to life of ruin, they say, while saying not so much about the label that actually got them committed. Puzzling, but later for all that. The thread on BPD at the only blog that matters has me head in a spin. I identify with borderlines, my life’s been filled with them, I have it in me, it’s a hellish disorder. I’ve only seen do... Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2110735 Sat, 17 Jan 2009 09:02:41 +0100 2110735 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1991041&cid=t_252409_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F11%2F27%2Fi-try-to-praise-the-mutilated-world%2F I often wonder what it will look like to reach the point of not just surviving my misfortunes but being simply and profoundly grateful for every single thing that has ever happened to me. And why people who want things like that are so perplexing to those who don’t. Those who wonder, in their golden ways what’s so funny about gallows humor, the sole comfort of those who’ve escaped the hangman and an affront to those who have no knowledge of his existence. Welp, there it is, in black & white, no less. Thanks by W.S. Merwin Listen with the night falling we are saying thank you we are stopping on the bridges to bow from the railings we are running out of the glass rooms with our mouths full of food to look at the sky and say thank you we are standing by the water thanki... Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1991041 Thu, 27 Nov 2008 10:44:48 +0100 1991041 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1870945&cid=t_252409_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F10%2F11%2Fballad-of-a-teenage-queen%2F She shouts for a reckoning with entire mouth and unspoilt heart. My friend Poodle (”Ursula”) from Christchurch NZ declares her joy, in love with these times. (rule for radicals: that’s why she’s a teacher and you’re not) so thats me in the corner-thats me over there–was a hard arse interview 2 do-my dyslexia gets in the way some-times-just bear with it and it will show its beauty Living With the Scars of Abuse by KIM THOMAS Source: Press, The Christchurch, New Zealand Posted on: Wednesday, 1 October 2008, 15:00 CDT New Zealand’s mental health system has a dark history, with hundreds of former patients alleging abuse in state hospitals. Kim Thomas tells the story of one woman who suffered abuse and explores what former patients are doing to try an... Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1870945 Sat, 11 Oct 2008 14:54:34 +0100 1870945 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1782764&cid=t_252409_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F09%2F10%2Fa-problem-from-hell%2F Good to know. How can I help? I don’t have anything different to add to the online cacophony other than my endorsement, but yesterday’s statement by Eve Ensler on Huffpo perfectly describes what’s clanging around my own feminist head and heart. Actual blogging may be on hold these days but there comes a time to cut & paste: I am having Sarah Palin nightmares. I dreamt last night that she was a member of a club where they rode snowmobiles and wore the claws of drowned and starved polar bears around their necks. I have a particular thing for Polar Bears. Maybe it’s their snowy whiteness or their bigness or the fact that they live in the arctic or that I have never seen one in person or touched one. Maybe it is the fact that they live so comfortably on ice. Whateve... Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1782764 Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:41:12 +0100 1782764 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1575493&cid=t_252409_109_f&fid=35088&url=http%3A%2F%2Fqw88nb88.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F07%2F03%2Fdiggout-from-inder%2F That title was a typo, but I decided I liked the twist on “digging out from under”. So here I am, finally with computer issues sorted out and a HEAP of blogging buzzing around in me head, so without further ado, let’s start with: IN RATHER A JAM Last week was National Pollinator Week. Yes, [...] (Source: Andrea's Buzzing About:) Andrea's Buzzing About: blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1575493 Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:46:23 +0100 1575493 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1463928&cid=t_252409_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F05%2F23%2Fi-will-be-a-good-girl%2F “Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it. With our art, our music, our literature, our stubbornness, our joy, our brilliance, our sheer relentlessness — and our ability to tell our own stories. Stories that are different from the ones we’re being brainwashed to believe.” Arundhati Roy ♥ I’m deeply perplexed by this video making the rounds. Target: Women is an amusing poke at the marketing campaigns that attempt to manipulate modern women to ingest yogurt, yes, I said yogurt. You know what else out there deserves our similarly sarcastic cultural criticism with or without alliteration? Crickets, you say. Yup. I’ve established cordial relations with the big feminist blogg... Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1463928 Fri, 23 May 2008 11:07:46 +0100 1463928 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1128797&cid=t_252409_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F01%2F03%2Fone-for-all-the-ladies-in-the-house%2F In a little something we call informed consent, the Bonkers Institute has released its Shoppers Guide to 22 Worthless Drugs, via this portal, where the consumer is invited to click on drug name to view complete list of side effects (aka adverse events) sorted alphabetically for your shopping convenience. At the top of the charts [...] (Source: Writhe Safely) Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1128797 Thu, 03 Jan 2008 20:51:10 +0100 1128797 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1104400&cid=t_252409_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F12%2F19%2Fnimh-message-to-consumers%2F So the public’s been invited to get off its sorry ass and send personal recommendations to the moon in the sky regarding the national strategic mental health plan, which will “serve as a guide to the Institute for advancing mental health science over the next 3-5 years.” The friendly solicitation of public comment [...] (Source: Writhe Safely) Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1104400 Wed, 19 Dec 2007 09:53:20 +0100 1104400 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1045153&cid=t_252409_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F11%2F22%2Ftry-to-praise-the-mutilated-world%2F Try to praise the mutilated world. Remember June’s long days, and wild strawberries, drops of wine, the dew. The nettles that methodically overgrow the abandoned homesteads of exiles. You must praise the mutilated world. You watched the stylish yachts and ships; one of them had a long trip ahead of it, while salty oblivion awaited others. You’ve seen the refugees heading nowhere, you’ve heard the [...] (Source: Writhe Safely) Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1045153 Thu, 22 Nov 2007 11:11:57 +0100 1045153 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=883800&cid=t_252409_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F09%2F19%2Fhow-psychiatry-blames-the-victim%2F A man rapes a woman, her resulting PTSD is misdiagnosed as Borderline Personality Disorder. Women who have been raped are traumatized and eligible for the non-punishing dx of PTSD, which sits on AXIS I of treatable mental illness. BPD is an AXIS II diagnosis, the AXIS referring to disorders of the personality, that [...] (Source: Writhe Safely) Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=883800 Wed, 19 Sep 2007 10:57:27 +0100 883800 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=883801&cid=t_252409_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F09%2F19%2Fhow-to-pick-up-chicks%2F Radical Honesty promises a better life for everybody by learning to tell the bald faced truth. To everyone, no exceptions. It’s an impossible ideal and a movement I hold dear, and is highly touted by psych survivors, artists, seekers and bohemians, human potential mental health types and countercultural old farts. It is however [...] (Source: Writhe Safely) Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=883801 Wed, 19 Sep 2007 08:47:59 +0100 883801 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=873795&cid=t_252409_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F09%2F15%2Fthese-are-the-secrets-that-kill%2F Patriarchy: A social system in which the father is the head of the family and men have authority over women and children. I support Brigitte Harris, the 26-year-old New York woman charged with strangling and castrating her pig of a father for what he did to her because he could. What he did to his daughter (almost every type of sexual act possible from the time she was 3 years old through her young adulthood) is not remarkable. One in five girls grows up raped by a family member, night after night year in and year out. Our society condones this, if you find that hard to believe, listen to a victim. As if. Our society likes to believe that incest is taboo. Wrong, incest is ordinary. Revealing the truth of incest is what’s taboo. Victims who do tell are not believed. None of which is... Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=873795 Sat, 15 Sep 2007 09:28:44 +0100 873795 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=858444&cid=t_252409_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F09%2F10%2Fnote-to-compassion-trolls-not-here%2F If you knew me in real life you’d wonder when I’m going to get myself killed. All my friends do. Funny no one ever asks me that online, I wonder why. I’m not in hiding, it’s all out there, right, yes. So let’s not pretend. My life is made up of constant and vituperative battles with institutionalized authority, I’ve always been this way and always will. It’s part non-volitional upset and part performance, but it’s all real. The non-volitional upset is what control freaks tell me to analyze, and that they even make such a suggestion is endemic to the sense of entitlement I refuse to recognize and that got us into this fight in the first place. My refusal to knuckle under leads to even more outrageous demands for submission and I want that to... Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=858444 Mon, 10 Sep 2007 23:16:56 +0100 858444 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=638446&cid=t_252409_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F05%2F25%2Ffrom-the-department-of-goes-without-saying%2F Victims of child abuse and domestic violence are mislabeled by professionals. They suffer from PTSD, not borderline personality disorder. So says Dr. Heyward Ewart, author of a new book showing how child abuse mangles the personality for a lifetime. I’ve been banging this drum for years without a goddamn word of confirmation from expert circles, better savor these words, we’re not likely to see them for another 20 years: Some authorities say that up to 60 percent of psychiatric patients, both in-patient and out-patient, report childhood histories of physical or sexual abuse or both. This estimate excludes emotional abuse and neglect. My experience confirms that very many patients are suffering from PTSD (posttraumatic stress disorder) as a direct result of childhood maltreatmen... Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=638446 Fri, 25 May 2007 22:45:30 +0100 638446 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=552191&cid=t_252409_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F04%2F13%2Fwreckers-like-me%2F I may be that and no they don’t. I see my friends at the Dylan Shelter have a long thread on the PTSD articles I posted last week. The opinion I’m about to quote captures the typical beatdown victims receive for having the gall to recognize what’s happened to them and to consider it important. Grizz’s response is instructive for handling the sheer dicksuckery that comes with the territory of constructing an accurate personal narrative: Landshipping Legend: …Of course theres lots of horrible things happening in life I have nothing but pity for sufferers of PTSD, women and kids who are abused physically and mentally ,what civilised person wouldnt? unfortunately amongst all the genuine heartache you get this encouragement of being a victim. Let me give you two ... Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=552191 Fri, 13 Apr 2007 22:20:39 +0100 552191 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=551384&cid=t_252409_133_f&fid=35452&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.graphictruth.com%2F2007%2F04%2Fre-jim-gibbons-ref-we-told-you-so.html TPMmuckraker March 30, 2007 09:51 AMMore Trouble for GibbonsBy Paul Kiel - March 30, 2007, 9:51 AMThe Wall Street Journal continues (sub. req.) to make life miserable for Nevada Gov. Jim Gibbons. The paper first reported a month ago that Gibbons was under federal investigation for improper gifts (possible bribes) from a defense contractor.Now the paper reports that Gibbons' business as a legislator was intertwined with a second defense contractor:The wife of Nevada Gov. Jim Gibbons was hired as a consultant to a defense contractor at the same time that her husband, who was then a member of Congress, helped the company get funding for a no-bid federal contract. Dawn Gibbons got about $35,000 in consulting fees in 2004 from Sierra Nevada Corp., of Sparks, Nev., the company said. Mr. Gibbons... Graphictruth blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=551384 Tue, 03 Apr 2007 04:00:00 +0100 551384 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=552217&cid=t_252409_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F03%2F17%2Fin-the-name-of-what-now%2F I love the interblog fights. Last one I was in on took off from the Feministe slapdown of the Sadly, No! ruffians over their free use of the word cunt as an epithet. Which goes to show the liberal dude is not your ally but a wolf in sheeps clothing, steeped in privilege, typified by his refusal to knuckle under the feminist re-education campaign which went on for a week and led to thousands of posts on millions of blogs. I’m about to share my take on it by starting with the insightful and pro-social Pinko Punko, who checked in with an indication of how bad things got on day three or so, when the frayed and sleepless were trolling each others blogs, performing our umbrage and rolling fat heads on the killing floor: Everybody just take their asshole reduction pill. Nobody is arguing f... Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=552217 Sat, 17 Mar 2007 22:41:47 +0100 552217